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Electronic Magazine

Just wanted to give you a heads-up on the new Electronic Magazine, the first issue of which was recently published. The brainchild of Push, who edited Muzik between 1995 and 1998 (having previously been a writer for Melody Maker), Electronic could be described as a Mojo for the electronic generation.

The launch issue included articles about the making of the classic 1981 Human League album, ‘Dare’, a 1977 archive interview with Kraftwerk, which originally appeared in Andy Warhol’s Interview Magazine, a piece looking at the history of Techno, another highlighting Matthew Herbert’s revival of the pioneering BBC Radiophonic Workshop, with further articles focusing on A Guy Called Gerald, Can, Gary Numan and Underworld. All this, as they say, and much much more, plus a free CD, ‘Back To The Phuture’, including tracks by Roxy Music, Can, OMD, Devo, Human League, Heaven 17 and Yazoo.

It was also good to find myself included in the magazine’s selection of ‘favourite things on SoundCloud’. The latest mix uploaded being a 3 and a half hour recording from The Bunker in Brooklyn at the end of last month:

2 Responses to Electronic Magazine

Hi Greg,
That mix from the Bunker is one of the best mixes I've heard in a long while - i'm loving it and I've only had the chance to get 2 hours into it so far so far!
Can I ask what formats/equipment you used for it? From a professional and creative point of view I would love to know how you put it together as for a live mix it's flawless and constantly inventive and entertaining.
Credit (to the edit) where credit's due...

Nice one Adrian - wouldn't go as far as to say flawless though, I can hear transitions I thought could have been smoother / tighter, but that's always the way with live mixes as opposed to pre-recorded. Overall, however, I'm really pleased with it.

Equipment wise I'm playing from CD, using 2 x CDJ2000 via a Pioneer DJM900 mixer. Over the top of the music I'm spinning sounds / effects / samples from tape via a Revox B77 reel-to-reel. Most of the tracks I play are re-edits, both my own and other peoples'.

Being a DJ

I’m a DJ from Merseyside. I started out in 1975, but stopped for almost 20 years, between 1984 and the end of 2003, at which point I started again.

One night during the period I wasn’t deejaying, turning off my mind, relaxing, and floating downstream I had what might be termed a moment of clarity. Paradoxically, although I was no longer a DJ in the literal sense I suddenly became aware that I’d never actually stopped being a DJ, for even if I was in a room with just one person I couldn’t help but ask them ‘have you heard this?’, and not only ‘heard’, but ‘have you seen this / read this?’, for it goes beyond music. Already taken somewhat aback by this nugget of self-discovery, I realised, in true eureka style, that this all pre-dates my being a DJ and goes back as far as I can remember – I’ve always had an inherent need to share, it’s absolutely central to my nature. This was quite a revelation.

So it’s no wonder that I became a Disc Jockey, for once I fell in love with those circular pieces of magical plastic during my formative years, it wasn’t a matter of choosing this as a path, the path pretty much chose me.

I don’t intend this to be a DJ blog as such, but more a blog by someone who happens to be a DJ – a place where personal emphasis takes precedence over professional, although, as I’ve already explained, the two aspects are, of course, inescapably entwined.